Comment Re:Low chair (Score 1) 262
I agree that the keypad on 15" laptops is absolutely retarded. Fortunately, the smaller laptops don't have it, and 14" isn't that much smaller than 15".
Comment Implied consent (Score 1) 86
So, if your browser is configured to keep cookies, does that imply consent to place cookies?
If you configure your browser to disallow cookies from certain sites, you're denying consent, and it doesn't even require the sites to be changed at all.
So, why does this law exist again? It looks -1, Redundant to me.
Comment Re:You have a child every 3 months? (Score 1) 321
Unless he has 3 wives.
Comment Re:Public (Score 1) 321
Why not burn it and say you tossed it in a cheap walk in freezer?
Submission + - City of Boston pays $170,000 to settle landmark case involving man arrested for (aclum.org) 1
Ian Lamont writes: "The City of Boston has reached a $170,000 settlement with Simon Glik who was arrested by Boston Police in 2007 after using his mobile phone to record police arresting another man on Boston Common. Police claimed that Glik had violated state wiretapping laws, but later dropped the charges and admitted the officers were wrong to arrest him. Glik had brought a lawsuit against the city (aided by the ACLU) because he claimed his civil rights were violated. According to today's ACLU statement:
"As part of the settlement, Glik agreed to withdraw his appeal to the Community Ombudsman Oversight Panel. He had complained about the Internal Affairs Division's investigation of his complaint and the way they treated him. IAD officers made fun of Glik for filing the complaint, telling him his only remedy was filing a civil lawsuit. After the City spent years in court defending the officers' arrest of Glik as constitutional and reasonable, IAD reversed course after the First Circuit ruling and disciplined two of the officers for using "unreasonable judgment" in arresting Glik.
Submission + - Hackerazzi pleads guilty to targeting celebrities (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "In a highly publicized case, A Florida man this week pleaded guilty to hacking into the personal e-mail accounts of more than 50 actors including Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, Renee Olstead.
Specifically Christopher Chaney, 35, pleaded guilty to nine felony counts of a 28-count indictment, including unauthorized access to protected computers, wiretapping and wire fraud, unauthorized damage to protected computers resulting in more than $5,000 loss and physical harm."
Specifically Christopher Chaney, 35, pleaded guilty to nine felony counts of a 28-count indictment, including unauthorized access to protected computers, wiretapping and wire fraud, unauthorized damage to protected computers resulting in more than $5,000 loss and physical harm."
Submission + - Money Mules, Not Customers, The Real Victims? (threatpost.com)
chicksdaddy writes: "Threatpost is reporting on research from Microsoft that argues money mules — the accomplices who help move stolen funds — may be the real victims of online banking scams, not the bank customers who are the ostensible targets of fraudsters.
In a paper that turns conventional wisdom on its head, Microsoft researcher Cormac Herley and two co-authors argue that, mules, unlike fraud victims, are not protected by Federal anti fraud laws. And, unlike the criminals they work for, they are not beyond the reach of the banks or law enforcement. Further, as banks and other financial institutions have gotten better at tracing account takeover scams and reversing charges, it is the mules who pay the price: having funds extracted from their account to make the victim whole, assuming such funds are available.
"The thief is really stealing from the mule, not the compromised account, though that fact does not become clear until the dust settles," the researchers write.
Their conclusion: shoring up customer accounts (say, through stronger passwords) will have only limited utility in stemming fraud. A better approach would be to crack down on muling, denying fraudsters the critical link in getting money out of compromised accounts: a legitimate bank account that will take an illegal money transfer from a hacked account and turn it into a legitimate transfer to the fraudsters' account."
In a paper that turns conventional wisdom on its head, Microsoft researcher Cormac Herley and two co-authors argue that, mules, unlike fraud victims, are not protected by Federal anti fraud laws. And, unlike the criminals they work for, they are not beyond the reach of the banks or law enforcement. Further, as banks and other financial institutions have gotten better at tracing account takeover scams and reversing charges, it is the mules who pay the price: having funds extracted from their account to make the victim whole, assuming such funds are available.
"The thief is really stealing from the mule, not the compromised account, though that fact does not become clear until the dust settles," the researchers write.
Their conclusion: shoring up customer accounts (say, through stronger passwords) will have only limited utility in stemming fraud. A better approach would be to crack down on muling, denying fraudsters the critical link in getting money out of compromised accounts: a legitimate bank account that will take an illegal money transfer from a hacked account and turn it into a legitimate transfer to the fraudsters' account."
Submission + - Linux run on a 8-bit microcontroller (dmitry.co)
dmitrygr writes: "Shown here is linux (kernel 2.6.34) running on an 8-bit avr microcontroller on a hand-soldered board, finally putting to rest the question of minimum system requirements to run Linux. Source code and instructions to reproduce this are provided, as well as video."
Comment Re:How far do we go to fight terrorism? (Score 2) 189
Does anyone remember the time when the IRA used to regularly perform bombing attacks in Britain? The government didn't react this way back then. They could have gone all DDR, but they didn't. So why now?
Comment Re:A classic example... (Score 5, Insightful) 419
Yes, but the real question is, did they sack those responsible for hiring this guy?
Comment Re:You still can't have your pudding... (Score 1) 215
Except here it's done by a machine! Progress!
Comment Re:You still can't have your pudding... (Score 5, Funny) 215
That is pretty childish behaviour.
Comment Re:Nothing to see here (Score 1) 5
Slashdot doesn't seem to mind about Slashdot.jp: Slashbox preview for Slashdot.jp, but I don't know about solidot.org. If you scroll down, they link back to Slashdot.org, but also to a site about an "anticancer herb", which sounds shifty. Also, one of the article submitters, whose names links to Solidot.org, and so is probably a site editor, is called Blackhat
Comment Nothing to see here (Score 1) 5
They're just Slashdot-like websites that use the same code and theme. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery and such...
Comment Re:Doesn't Matter if you have a FB account (Score 1) 216
Yeah, well, what if you don't have an email address?
